Unlike Facebook, Google, Instagram, and many other western sites, the global version of Steam isn't completely blocked in China (there's also a version of the platform made specifically for the country). The country uses a combination of AI bots and human appraisers, called Jian Huang shi, to search the web for images and decide if they contain explicit content deemed illegal. Like all pornography, it's banned in China, leading to many female characters from Overwatch, Genshin Impact, and Final Fantasy appearing on the app in images unsuitable as wallpapers (or maybe they are-no judgments).Īround 40% of the app's users are in China, where uploading or reposting porn can be considered a crime. MIT Technology Review writes that while the majority of user-submitted wallpapers in the app are safe for work, about 7.5% of the over 1.6 million contributions are labeled "mature," containing videos of anime characters having sex and occasionally pornographic photos and videos of real people.įan-made hentai videos remain popular on certain sites and subreddits the genre made headlines last year when someone Zoom bombed an Italian senate meeting and streamed Final Fantasy VII porn. But its popularity comes not only from creating, browsing, and sharing Windows desktop wallpapers but also because it's a way to evade China's ban on pornography, hence why over 200,000 of those positive reviews are written in Chinese. That's a lot of hours for a wallpaper app.
But in seventh place sits Wallpaper Engine, which boasts almost 100,000 peak players and 45.2 million hours 'played.' Steam's most-played games chart shows the usual names: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is still number one GTA V continues to hang around Apex Legend, Rust, Dota 2, and so on. But the app is being used for more than choosing wallpapers it allows China-based users to view and distribute porn. It's gained almost half a million Overwhelmingly Positive reviews, more than Elden Ring. WTF?! The seventh most-played game on Steam right now isn't what you would expect: a wallpaper app called Wallpaper Engine.
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